Yegor Bykovsky

Yegor Bykovsky was born in 1968 in the Russian North, in the city of Cherepovets. Then, together with his parents, he moved to Moscow, where he studied at school, and later, in 1990, graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University. The communist government in Russia had then just changed to a democratic one, and Yegor decided not to continue studying science but to devote himself to journalism.

For a few years he worked for the first non-state newspaper in Russia ("Nezavissimaya Gazeta"), then for several years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the English-language Moscow newspaper The Moscow News, and also, for one and a half years, the Managing Editor of The New York Times Russian Edition. In the late 1990s he worked as Associate Editor and the science&technology columnist for the country's most influential weekly magazine, Itogi. He was the publisher of the Russian version of the American magazine Popular Science, then Editor-in-Chief of the Science in Focus magazine (the Russian version of the British magazine BBC Science Focus). At the same time, for more than 10 years, he was running the scientific department of Vokrug Sveta, the oldest Russian popular science and regional history magazine. Now he is the Chief Editor of the pop-sci magazine Naked-Science.Ru.